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Advanced persistent threat (APT) is a kind of stealthy, sophisticated, and long-term cyberattack that has brought severe financial losses and critical infrastructure damages. Existing works mainly focus on APT defense under stable network…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Zixuan Wang , Jiliang Li , Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Shui Yu , Weizhi Meng

High-precision clock synchronization is essential for a wide range of network-distributed applications. In the quantum space, these applications include communication, sensing, and positioning. However, current synchronization techniques…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Ravi Singh Adhikari , Aman Gupta , Anju Rani , Xiaoyu Ai , Robert Malaney

Contemporary web application architectures involve many layers of proxy services that process traffic. Due to the complexity of HTTP and vendor design decisions, these proxies sometimes process a given request in different ways. Attackers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Cem Topcuoglu , Kaan Onarlioglu , Steven Sprecher , Engin Kirda

Over the past years, TCP has gone through numerous updates to provide performance enhancement under diverse network conditions. However, with respect to losses, little can be achieved with legacy TCP detection and recovery mechanisms. Both…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Simone Ferlin , Stepan Kucera , Holger Claussen , Ozgu Alay

High precision, synchronized clocks are essential to a growing number of Internet applications. Standard protocols and their associated server infrastructure have been shown to typically enable client clocks to synchronize on the order of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Sathiya Kumaran Mani , Yi Cao , Paul Barford , Darryl Veitch

Many security protocols rely on the assumptions on the physical properties in which its protocol sessions will be carried out. For instance, Distance Bounding Protocols take into account the round trip time of messages and the transmission…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Max Kanovich , Tajana Ban Kirigin , Vivek Nigam , Andre Scedrov , Carolyn Talcott

Closed-loop flow control protocols, such as the prominent implementation TCP, are prevalent in the Internet, today. TCP has continuously been improved for greedy traffic sources to achieve high throughput over networks with large bandwidth…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Ralf Lübben , Markus Fidler

This paper introduces the Time Synchronization Attack Rejection and Mitigation (TSARM) technique for Time Synchronization Attacks (TSAs) over the Global Positioning System (GPS). The technique estimates the clock bias and drift of the GPS…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Ali Khalajmehrabadi , Nikolaos Gatsis , David Akopian , Ahmad F. Taha

The uprising interest in multi-agent based networked system, and the numerous number of applications in the distributed control of the smart grid leads us to address the problem of time synchronization in the smart grid. Utility companies…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Imtiaz Parvez , Arif I. Sarwat , Jonathan Pinto , Zakaria Parvez , Mohammad Aqib Khandaker

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack usually refers to the form of long-term, covert and sustained attack on specific targets, with an adversary using advanced attack techniques to destroy the key facilities of an organization. APT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Tiantian Zhu , Jinkai Yu , Tieming Chen , Jiayu Wang , Jie Ying , Ye Tian , Mingqi Lv , Yan Chen , Yuan Fan , Ting Wang

Recent years have witnessed the surge of asynchronous parallel (async-parallel) iterative algorithms due to problems involving very large-scale data and a large number of decision variables. Because of asynchrony, the iterates are computed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Zhimin Peng , Yangyang Xu , Ming Yan , Wotao Yin

With the development of mobile communication and industrial internet technologies, the demand for robust absolute time synchronization based on network for diverse scenarios is significantly growing. TAP is a novel network timing method…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Chenyu Zhang , Xiangming Wen , Wei Zheng , Longdan Yu , Zhaoming Lu , Zhengying Wang

Despite the critical role of timing infrastructure in enabling essential services, from public key infrastructure and smart grids to autonomous navigation and high-frequency trading, modern timing stacks remain highly vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Adeel Nasrullah , Fatima M. Anwar

The proliferation of wireless communications networks over the past decades, combined with the scarcity of the wireless spectrum, have motivated a significant effort towards increasing the throughput of wireless networks. One of the major…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Emeka Abakasanga , Nir Shlezinger , Ron Dabora

Sub-nanosecond precision clock synchronization over the packet network has been achieved by the White Rabbit protocol for a decade. However, few computer systems utilize such a technique. We try to attract more interest in the clock…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Ying Zhang

We present BMC4TimeSec, an end-to-end tool for verifying Timed Security Protocols (TSP) based on SMT-based bounded model checking and multi-agent modelling in the form of Timed Interpreted Systems (TIS) and Timed Interleaved Interpreted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Agnieszka M. Zbrzezny

APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) with the characteristics of persistence, stealth, and diversity is one of the greatest threats against cyber-infrastructure. As a countermeasure, existing studies leverage provenance graphs to capture the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Mingqi Lv , HongZhe Gao , Xuebo Qiu , Tieming Chen , Tiantian Zhu , Jinyin Chen , Shouling Ji

Many operations in power grids, such as fault detection and event location estimation, depend on precise timing information. In this paper, a novel Time Synchronization Attack (TSA) is proposed to attack the timing information in smart…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Zhenghao Zhang , Shuping Gong , Aleksandar D. Dimitrovski , Husheng Li

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), implementing a high-precision time synchronization scheme on resource-constrained sensor nodes is a major challenge. Our investigation of the practical implementation on a real testbed of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Xintao Huan , Kyeong Soo Kim

The security of cyber-physical systems, from self-driving cars to medical devices, depends on their underlying multi-hop wireless networks. Yet, the lack of trusted central infrastructures and limited nodes' resources make securing these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Mohammed Gharib , Ali Owfi , Soudeh Ghorbani